Avid vs. Final Cut

[Jon Zanone]

Do a search – this was discussed ad nauseum about 2 months back…

Jon

“So you want to throw out the old you – but the old you is old enough to know it won’t make it better”
Del Amitri – “Make it Better”

[Zach Cobb]

With the caveat that Apple is in a major pardigm shift from Power PC to Intel:

IF you have other apps that need a Mac to run AND your Avid software is not of the HD flavor, you can have your Mac and Avid too! FCP is an excellent application, but different from Avid. There are pluses and minuses for each. If you set your Mac with dual-boot partitions, you can have both apps installed and decide which you prefer.

As part of the caveat mentioned above, don’t expect Apple to update/support the Power PC apps for long after the Intel Macs are fully in swing.

[Mark Raudonis]

[Zach Cobb] “don’t expect Apple to update/support the Power PC apps for long after the Intel Macs are fully in swing.”

What is that supposed to mean?

Mark

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Jane –
I am advising you to take your money, and open up a sandwich shop, or get a coffee wagon, and sell coffee and bagels. This investment will not become outdated as fast as any FCP or AVID purchase. I also understand that there are great opportunites open in the septic tank cleaning business.

Bob Zelin

[Dom Silverio]

Mark does it take an FCP question to get you to visit this side of the pastor 🙂

[Mark Raudonis]

MPE,

I sometimes visit here to remind me why I left for the greener pastures of FCP. 🙂

mark

[Jon Zanone]

[Bob Zelin] “I also understand that there are great opportunites open in the septic tank cleaning business.”

Which, if you think about it, is what most of us do on a daily basis! 🙂

Jon

“So you want to throw out the old you – but the old you is old enough to know it won’t make it better”
Del Amitri – “Make it Better”

[Dom Silverio]

I move by I am afraid FCP would mangle the management of that pasture 😉

[Tae]

If you are comfortable with Avid on PC, stick with Avid on PC. Unless your parter can come up with a reason better than “someone told me Macs are better.”

Neither is better. One is better for you. Only you can know what that is.

[Neil Sadwelkar]

My observation used to be.

FCP is more capable, less trustworthy,
Avid is more trustworthy, less capable.

In the FCP 3/Avid 10 days. Things ave changed somewhat after Adrenaline and FCP 4/MacOSX days.

And in one of these endless comparison debates at this and other forums, someone once wrote…

Date FCP, marry Avid.

And the debate goes on…

Neil